Australian Runner, 15, Fined Over Result

By The Associated Press

March 30, 2016

Talia Martin — a 15-year-old who on Monday won the Stawell Gift, a 120-meter handicap race considered Australia’s oldest and richest short-distance running race — was fined $2,000 from her $40,000 purse by officials who said she had improved more in two weeks than most athletes did in a lifetime.